The New Rogue One Trailer Will Make You Want to Sign Up for the Star Wars

This morning, Disney and Lucasfilm released the final trailer for the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the first Star Wars spinoff movie, set before the events of A New Hope. Get a load of all the cool visuals, and all the Mads Mikkelsen voice, below:

There are tons of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moments in the new trailer, including a couple of rad shots of Darth Vader himself, who, yes, is back. Director Gareth Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla) has made it clear he’s doing something different with the freedom of the spinoff, saying it might be a bit grittier, a bit more “war film” than we’ve come to expect.

That certainly plays out in the new trailer, which looks like a truly beautiful art film set in the Star Wars universe. Edwards knows exactly how to play with scale for maximum effect (Godzilla was, despite pretty much everything else, cool to look at), and the visuals here are unlike anything we’ve seen so far from any Star Wars movies that have come before it. That shot of the Death Star looming over the cloudy planet! That jungle-forest shootout! Vader! (Did we mention Vader already?)

On top of all that, with two months to go until the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, we finally know something about the plot of the movie! Previous trailers played it pretty cool when it came to story details; we’ve known for a while that the film depicts an attempt to steal plans for the Death Star before it’s completed. But we didn’t know MADS MIKKELSEN is the one who designed it against his will! (Okay, maybe some of us kind of knew that.)

Despite overblown worries about reshoots, which really could mean any number of things for a movie this size, this trailer really makes it seem like Edwards and Co. know what they’re doing. Michael Giacchino’s debut as a Star Wars composer gives some new, remixed life to the classic John Williams score, and Ben Mendelsohn looks appropriately menacing and awesome as the movie’s main villain, Orson Krennic.